Yup, it is. I know, I've been slacking but joining GitHub has been a whole new adventure I most certainly couldn't have anticipated before joining. One thing is for sure... this past year's work is just about to kick off big time...

Consequently, let’s build a bot to audit the membership of our GitHub organisation. But let’s do away with a backing store, because with a little thought GitHub can be our backing store - and let’s build only the most minimal interface, because GitHub can be our interface too. This means people using our bot need to learn absolutely nothing to use it – they’re devs, and they already know how to use these tools – they already know how to use GitHub.— How the Guardian uses GitHub to audit GitHub | Info | theguardian.com

This is a great idea and a great way to use GitHub to manage your use of GitHub

Github opened up beta testing to the world for their awesome new editor, Atom and I'm here to offer you an invite.

I've been using Atom since I started at GitHub and it very quickly replaced Sublime Text (which had already usurped TextMate) as my go-to editor for hacking code. I use it for everything from PHP, Markdown, CSS, Ruby, Javascript and even plaintext (because I can ).

So why would you switch from Sublime Text or TextMate to Atom? Well, because it's much faster in my eyes, but more importantly much easier to customise and enhance. I know Javascript and CSS/Less and I'm learning CoffeeScript so I have all the skills and tools I need to customise and mould Atom to my tastes. And if I want to share those with the world, I can package up my enhancements and easily share them with the world. This is much easier than doing the same thing with Sublime or TextMate.

So what are you waiting for? Want and invite? Tweet me your email address and I'll send you an invite.

PS. It's Mac only at the mo, but a Linux and Windows version will be available soon.